Never Let Me Go Ethical Analysis

Several ethical issues associated cloning have a negative effect on a clone's sense of self-identity. Since the students at Hailsham are being raised without mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, and any other relatives, they lack a sense of identity. To make up for this loss, the student's sense of self comes from the bonds they form with other students at Hailsham. The protagonists in the novel, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy develop a sense of family between themselves. They are there for each other in good times and bad. The student's sense of identity and individuality also comes from their treasured collections. As a special treat, Kathy, Tommy, Ruth, and all the other students can participate in the monthly exchange where the students can buy other student's artwork, poems, sculptures and other trinkets. This sale is crucial to the students because it allows them to acquire their personal collection of individual items and this gives them a sense of identity. The students "took enormous care, bringing things out to display, putting other things away carefully" (Ishiguro …show more content…
In Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro writes about the lives of boarding school students who are born as clones and have a predestined plan for their lives already mapped out for them. These students do not have immediate families because they are born as clones for living only long enough to donate their internal organs to other sick individuals. They have no chance to live their lives in the manner they would like, and this is ethically and morally wrong. Cloning posed many ethically issues to our society although several benefits come from cloning. Many health problems may be cured through genetic cloning, but scientists and the rest of society need to think carefully and clearly before approval is given to clone a human being in real life and not just in the dystopian world of